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The pastor of the church asked believers to sign a petition opposing the same-sex marriage referendum. A young church member with rainbow-dyed hair, raging with anger and resentment, sought to prove his own existence.
Recording of film students doing some imitative shooting.
Wang Chen, a police of the government, was involved with a murder case and was put in prison. His brother disguised as Pink Panther and saved him from the prison, but then they were attacked by Japanese police.
Generally, the family is the first and smallest social group with which each individual comes into contact. The small moments of family life are often unforgettable…
What does it mean to miss someone? Dolores remembers the time in high school when an unknown pair of siblings nearly drowned. Although the unknown sister and brother were saved, the regret never left... She wipes away her tears and holds on to that summer, that person, in her own way.
After receiving devastating news, a mother and daughter must process their new reality and relationship with each other.
A woman searches for her birth father in Taiwan.
Taco meets a girl named Cathy who just missed her train.He tells her a story about “Cathy,” a name shared by all his ex-girlfriends…
As night deepened and all was quiet, Shuming cried out his lover's name, drawing the audience into a whirlpool of memories. He encounters Fang Jiang, a single mother, yet both carry their own unresolved family burdens. Fang Jiang is pursued by the married Wen Sheng, while Shi Ming's wife, Yuan Yuan, though sensing something amiss, feels sympathy for Fang Jiang. The desires, guilt, and realities of married men and women tear at every sensitive heart. This film piles up melodramatic tropes to a breaking point, its devastating impact is astonishing.
The film, which took five years to make and was initiated by Senate President Vystrčil's visit to Taiwan in 2020, maps the current geopolitical situation of this island nation and seeks not only historical but mainly current parallels between Taiwan's position vis-à-vis China and Russia's position vis-à-vis smaller countries, including Ukraine, the Baltic states, and even the Czech Republic. China's pressure on Taiwan is intensifying, and this island state is increasingly under threat. Will it maintain its freedom and independence in today's complex world, where conflicts are on the rise and, with the possible help of the democratic world, it is becoming increasingly complicated?
A man fell.
Lin Dongliang leads the three-year "Marine Oasis" project, researching spinner and pantropical spotted dolphins. The team aims to secure IMMA designation from IUCN for enhanced conservation. A documentary follows their efforts, exploring their motivations and challenges, highlighting humanity's complex relationship with the ocean.
In Taiwan's southernmost Manzhou Township, a group of local women—ordinary homemakers—transform into acclaimed folk artists when they pick up their moon guitars. The documentary Manzhou Ladies chronicles their lives, led by folk treasure Zhang Rigui, depicting their resilience in preserving local ballads across decades. Now, as young apprentices struggle with language and cultural gaps, the future of these timeless tunes hangs in the balance.
Where do we go when we zone out, and how do we find our way back to reality? Sense of Nowhere is an invitation for the audience to explore the subconscious, piece together hidden clues, and find their way returning to the present moment.
Little Red and Little Green stood on opposite sides of the street, tending to their traffic lights every day. As time went by, through countless glances and silent exchanges, they gradually fell for each other.
An interview went on. We tried to figure out the film we worked together. Simple but complex. Time is such an interesting thing.
When the media 'discover' them, two insect hunting buddies pose as eco-conscious experts of Taiwan's exotic species although they have never had a steady job or any formal training in their entire life. Under the operative quise of 'Nature Outback Workshop,' they devise original strategies to reap fame and fortune from their newfound celebrity. Crafty Swindlers or gallant pioneers, the boys have a jolly good time on an adventure that eventually changes their lives.
The director holds the membership of the current Taiwan Film Institute, the former Chinese Taipei Film Archive and Film Library, for more than 30 years. He interviewed the former and current staffs of this institution hoping to find the meaning of his experience by talking to these old friends. But all the interviewees switched position and become the interviewers after 10 minutes. They could ask any questions to the director. By crosscutting various questions and his wondering around in his motorbike, the director went through a self-reflexive process.
Treasure Island opens with an animated fairy tale about a beautiful island filled with hidden treasures. As the tale unfolds, a parallel story takes place in reality—following two young women from Vietnam and Indonesia who are stranded in Taiwan, victims of human trafficking. They once believed coming to this treasure island for work would let them support their families and build a better life back home. But that fairy-tale dream soon collapses, overwhelmed by the harsh realities they must face.
In 2002, Cheng's father murdered his mother. He is both the son of the perpetrator and the beloved son of the victim. That afternoon, he met the children of two other death row inmates. The three of them talked about life, about marriage, and about their greatest fear: their fathers, and the death penalty.
Waiting. Waiting for the train. Fuzhou Station.
After the Formosan clouded leopard was declared extinct in 2015, CHEN Mei-ting and CHIANG Po-jen set out to rescue leopard cats and restore clouded leopards, fostering ecological and cultural revival.
With just one week left until the performance of "The Brave Cinderella" by Xiantang Elementary School's opera troupe, Lucy, the lead actress, strains her voice due to excessive rehearsal. In a twist of fate, her friend Cindy, eager to help Lucy regain her voice, steps in as the understudy. Faced with the opportunity to take the stage and her friend's doubts, how will she choose? Will the friendship of the Team Princess be shattered?
This is a story about a group of losers. In the real world, they are men without a sense of achievement, and in their boring lives, they choose to step into the wrestling ring, playing terrifying and dangerous roles. In the ring world, their twisted values turn them into villains. Amid scattered applause, they stand on the wrestling ring, searching for their final dignity in that moment.
In 1987, as Taiwan had just lifted martial law, society and the economy were undergoing rapid transformation, and Indigenous peoples faced a wave of urban migration and labor relocation. An Amis man Du-Ya Pan Ming-fu, his childhood friend Duwake, a Kavalan artist, and Lai-Sa-Gai-Nu Tian Acheng in Xiangbi Village, have different but intertwined lives. Though the three men were compelled by economic hardship to leave their homes, they did not bow to fate nor choose to remain in the city forever. In an era when Indigenous peoples were overlooked, they each steadfastly confronted their identity and cultural values, forging life paths that intertwined in unique ways.
When the world disconnects, what connects you? Do you feel truly connected in your daily life? As we navigate through the crush of conflicts, wars, and climate change enveloping our globe, we must ask ourselves: are we truly understood and embraced by one another?
"Taichung Way" is an original animated short set in Taichung, Taiwan. Through local dishes and a journey home, it follows a young person who has returned home. The film delicately portrays the taste of home and heartfelt human connections, capturing everyday streets and alleys bringing to life the warm memories of Taichung.
A glorified childhood memory: a crispy dessert with a hole in the middle, seen in a Japanese cartoon. The mother corrects: It was a soft doughnut. This cognitive distortion inspired this film, which challenges the boundaries of subjective perception. Images and sounds mix and overlap. Street noise, excerpts of faces, snippets of interviews. Only the people's answers are visible, the questions remain hidden. Once you think about it, consciousness piles up.
In a dystopian future, exiled Kung Fu master Big Sister 13 leads a gang of trans and queer fighters who reclaim a forgotten zone and transform it into the Martial Forest—a secret training ground where care is as powerful as combat. Together, they fight to survive rising violence and build a future rooted in chosen family and trans resistance.
“It Must Be” is a collaborative project between the filmmaker and his girlfriend, documenting their everyday life as international graduate students. Through the use of a handheld DV camcorder, they each film the shared spaces they inhabit, gradually exploring and redefining their understanding of “home.” The work also serves as a reflective summary of the filmmaker’s three years in graduate school.
Song Yaowen, an aspiring actor, and Cui Can, a struggling stand-up comedian, meet by chance at rock bottom, and despite their mutual dislike, an unexpected friendship begins that will change both their lives.
This silent footage documents the survey conducted between March and April 1937 (Showa 12) by Keitaro Miyamoto, Toru Ogawa, and Tadao Kano in the mountainous regions of southern Taiwan, home to the Paiwan people. Compiled and edited by the Attic Museum, the film includes intertitles and was completed as a finished work. The cinematographer was Keitaro Miyamoto.
In Taiwan, there is a group of clown artists whose stage is not in a theater, but in hospitals. They are not doctors, yet they bring healing through physical theater performances. These “clown doctors,” with their signature red noses, bring laughter and music into the cold, clinical environment of hospitals, offering moments of relief and emotional comfort to patients, families, and healthcare workers alike.
A Japanese girl came to Taiwan to couch surf but something terrible happened.
The story describes a hunter who chased a snow roe deer, incurs the revenge of the Roe Beast, adding to the mystery of folklore. Created with hemp rope in stop-motion puppet animation, this project uses the lack of facial expressions in the puppets to create a spooky and terrifying atmosphere. The hand-drawn style at the beginning and end adds to the mystery of the legend, prompting contemplation on the delicate balance between humans and the environment, as well as our reverence for nature.
In Cute Syndrome Town, residents trade with the Cute Virus for adorable looks, gaining shallow, fake happiness. Jane tries to restore their true selves, only to learn reality is more complex than she thought.
During Taiwan’s long colonization history, the difficult-to-survey mountainous areas, which were not described until late in the history of cartography, have been feared by some regimes as they hid rebels. Folded and wrinkled, they are the common “homeland” of people who have encountered diaspora due to the arrangements of regimes. After withdrawing from the tasks of extraction of resources and expansion of governance. It is a Zone that used to be inhabited by wild animals, Negrito people, the Truku tribe in search of hunting grounds, Japanese military explorers, soldiers evacuated from Myanmar who settled their colonies in the high mountains to reclaim and escaped migrant workers who had been displaced at current moment roaming here. Their ghost-like nomadism and migration have led to the drawing of a map of wandering within an area of Blank Zone.
Five cousins are determined to use their creativity and tenacity to successfully cross the creek behind their grandpa’s house to see what happens on the other side.